SAMHSA Seeks Input on Prescription Drug Misuse Survey Revamp
Published Date: 11/20/2025
Notice
Summary
SAMHSA is updating its data collection to better evaluate a program that fights prescription drug misuse and opioid overdoses. This affects communities, schools, and healthcare providers working to raise awareness and prevent drug abuse among teens and adults. The update extends data gathering through the end of the current grants, helping improve prevention efforts without adding extra costs to participants.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Data Collection Extended to Improve Prevention
SAMHSA is extending data collection for the SPF Rx program evaluation with the FY 2021 and FY 2022 grantees through the end of their grant periods and will annualize data collection over FY2026–FY2028. You (as a parent, school, or community member) may benefit because the evaluation is intended to improve prevention and outreach about prescription drug misuse among youth ages 12–17 and adults 18 and older, and SAMHSA says it will not add extra costs to participants.
Reporting Burden on Grantees and Subrecipients
SAMHSA estimates the PEPC data collection will create an average annual respondent burden of 409.17 hours and an average annual respondent cost of $17,522.49 across instruments (annualized over FY2026–FY2028). Specific instrument estimates include 128 Annual Reporting Tool responses totaling 192 hours and $6,496.51, 21 grantee-level PDMP module responses totaling 52 hours and $2,627.25, 107 community-level PDMP responses totaling 134.17 hours and $6,822.38, and 21 grantee-level interviews totaling 31 hours and $1,576.35.
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